From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Debian-exim@smtp1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.185.217]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o79JOHhP006630 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2010 15:24:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hekate.usta.de (asta-nat.asta.uni-karlsruhe.de [172.22.63.82]) by smtp1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de with esmtp (Exim 4.63 #1) id 1OiXxH-0005Py-5K; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:24:15 +0200 Received: from donnerwolke.usta.de ([172.24.96.3]) by hekate.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OiXxH-0004Vj-42 for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:24:15 +0200 Received: from iris.usta.de ([172.24.96.5] helo=usta.de) by donnerwolke.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OiXxH-0000o7-30 for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:24:15 +0200 Received: from schwarze by usta.de with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1OiXxH-0002pB-29 for discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv; Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:24:15 +0200 Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 21:24:15 +0200 From: Ingo Schwarze To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: groff `Lk' badness Message-ID: <20100809192415.GC21616@iris.usta.de> References: <4C5EFD04.2050407@bsd.lv> <20100808193700.GC28837@usta.de> <4C5F4A2D.9040506@bsd.lv> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C5F4A2D.9040506@bsd.lv> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Hi Kristaps, > grohtml in general is pretty useless (even Werner has said so). > Another part of the design of troff: it was never built for > hierarchical output. Ah, OK, so no need to worry about that. >>I think we should have something similar to: >> NetBSD: >> http://www.netbsd.org/ > Ours simply formats as LINK-NAME if a link name > is specified, else just LINK. I generally think > that writing an entire URI in a browser is superfluous as it usually > shows up someplace, e.g., the status bar. Yes, i think you are right, that is completely sufficient. Actually, my proposal would result in rather ugly WWW manuals, which we certainly don't want. Yours, Ingo -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv